'Shark Tank' Legend Notices Something in Zohran Mamdani's Viral Clip Others Are Unwilling to See

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1:48What is the joke there, Jimmy? You should be ashamed of yourself reading that. I do like his righteous indignation right there. I'd be doing something else for a living, right? I'd be in the NBA. What would you be doing? An ice cream tester. An ice cream tester. That can still be arranged.

2:25What is up, people? I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It's April 28th, 2026. You've liked, commented, and subscribed. We appreciate all that. So let's dive into the program. Second half of today's show is a rubinreport.locals.com community Q &A, which we normally do on Thursdays. It's a Tuesday, we have our reasons. Do I have to explain everything to everybody all the time? Like there's stuff going on, what can I tell you? Obviously we'll talk a little bit about some of the narrative fallout post the third assassination on the president, but we're gonna do more today, I would say, on just sort of general leftist lunacy across the board, because if it wasn't for hating Trump, which is a very lofty ideal in their minds, they would pretty much have nothing.

3:13And I think if we can just keep exposing that, then the midterms will not go as poorly as most people are predicting. And I refuse to be a Panikin, and I refuse to be a Blackpillar, and I refuse to be a Negative Nancy or a Negatron. So we're going to keep things as positive as possible. Let's dive in. Now, you remember about a week and a half ago when a communist in chief, communist with a dash of Islamist in chief of New York City, Zorhan Mamdami, moron Zamboni, when he put that ad out about how they were going to tax the rich of New York City. And it's not just tax the rich of New York City.

3:48They were going to have an extra tax because they already taxed the rich of New York City to the nth degree. but they were gonna have an extra tax for rich people who have a pied-de-terre, a very fancy word, which means an extra little, usually a condo in a big city. You don't live there, but it's where you come. You throw some parties. You go out to the opera or to the theater. You go to restaurants. You spend an awful lot of money, so to punish those people for that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but these guys, these communists, they need more of your money, and if you remember in the video, So, Zorhan went right outside billionaire Ken Griffin's house and pointed out his very condo.

4:30Here's Kevin O 'Leary from Shark Tank on that moment. Let's talk about what he did to Ken Griffith, though, because how would he like it if Ken took a video crew outside his house and say, Mondami lives here. This is where he lives. Think about what that means for personal safety. just in New York City to point out where someone lives, vandalism or much worse. I thought that was that was pretty bad. That's not that's not a good look for him. And I would think he'd want to do a little soul searching on that one. OK, so the line there that I want to focus on in light of what just happened with the president is vandalism or something much worse.

5:10Now, if you remember, if you watch the show the day we covered that originally, I said that this is pretty insane, that he would just pick a billionaire and stand outside his house up there. It's basically saying to the people, you know, when you come for the rich people and you break into the you break past the doorman and you're going to like burn a place down, this would be a pretty good place. 238 mil, go for this guy. Like that was the, I would say subliminal, but not that subliminal signal that he was sending. Here's a quick portion of that video. Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for$238 million.

5:50What is the point of that? What is the point of literally standing on the street and doing it? Also to Mr. Wonderful's point, you know, everyone knows where Mom Dombie lives. Actually, wasn't it an Islamist who threw a bomb outside of Gracie Mansion just a month or so ago. But of course, when Zorhan tweeted about it, it didn't mention anything about Islamist or jihad or anything else. He lives at Gracie Mansion. It's around 90th and York, something like that. I used to live right over there. I'm not saying anyone should go there or anything else. And it's public. The point is it's public where the mayor lives and he has all sorts of security.

6:25Ken Griffin, for as rich as he is, it's a normal building. I'm sure there's plenty of private security, but you can see what he's doing. And it's interesting though, he had to pick a billionaire. I don't know why he didn't pick Alex. Oh, right. He didn't pick Alex Soros because he's buddies with him. So when you're going after billionaires, what you want to do is go after the billionaires who don't agree with you, but he would never have the balls or the gall or the nerve to go to Alex Soros's. I'm sure he has multiple, probably buildings, not just condos in New York City, but he's funding much of the leftist lunacy.

6:58And so he's his kind of guy. Now, unsurprisingly, what happened after that? Well, Ken Griffin's thinking about getting about$6 billion worth of projects he's working on out of New York City. The mayor of New York getting pushback from billionaire Ken Griffin and his company called Citadel. Griffin threatening to go forward, not go forward, with his planned project in Midtown Manhattan. That would create, he says, 15 ,000 permanent jobs. Griffin lives in Miami, CEO of Citadel, a hedge fund that employs 2 ,500 people in New York. In a memo to the staff, the chief operating officer wrote, quote, it is shameful that he used Ken's name as the example of those who supposedly aren't carrying their fair share.

7:47Griffin and the staff paid$2.3 billion in city and state taxes, he said, and Griffin himself directed$650 million in charitable gifts to city institutions. that their planned 1 ,600-foot tower on Park Avenue will create over 20 ,000 mostly permanent jobs, then adding the project, if we move forward, will entail more than$6 billion of spending. So surprise, surprise, Zorhan, you stand outside of a billionaire's house basically telling people, hey, when you're ready for the revolution, you might want to start here, and then what happens? Well, Ken Griffin, first off, that's Ken Griffin's pied-de-terre.

8:27That's not Kevin Griffin's main place because he moved already and he lives, surprise, surprise, down here in Miami, Florida. And we're happy to have him and all of the good projects that he'll be doing. And I'm sure we'll be building buildings in Brickell similar to the ones that he may now pull out of New York City. 20 ,000 jobs, he and his companies, what was that? 2.3 billion in taxes. He gave 650 million in charitable donations to the city. Damn shame, Ken, because when the revolution happens, You're not gonna be able to go to the museums to see those things because they'll be coming for your head.

9:00But what's interesting about this, and this is why I would say there is a silver lining to Moron Zamboni being the current mayor of New York City. It is exposing all of the nonsense. I'm running on free buses. Oh, I got sworn in, no more free buses. I'm running on free government-run grocery stores. Oh, I got in, now we can't build them for another three years and they're gonna cost triple what they should. People are seeing general states of crime go up and drugs go up and people with money are leaving, thus they're gonna have to tax the next layer. It's causing a wake up amongst people. And I wanna show you something interesting.

9:33So Bill Maher on Friday night, who is a liberal and a lefty and all of those things, here he is, I think making an interesting conclusion finally, which is, Bill, there's no amount of money you can give these people that will ever be enough. The top 10 % pay 72 % of all federal income taxes, and the bottom half, 3%. The democratic socialists talk about socialism like we don't already have a lot. Social security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies. Again, not against it. Just the same question. How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly?

10:19How can it be that the federal government alone took in over$5 trillion in taxes last year and we still need that? Are we really this incompetent and corrupt? Don't answer that. But here's the truth. You're not going to get health care to these people by threatening to tax and eat the rich. You raise billionaires' taxes, they just leave the state. Or they leave the country. Or in some cases, the planet. All right, Bill. Love you. You're getting there. You're right, the rich, it's not even the rich. You already laid out the numbers there, so I don't have to repeat them. People with money pay most of the taxes.

10:56The bottom 50 % pay basically nothing. The government has$5 trillion in income, but it always wants more of your money because it's not a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. Then interestingly, he shows all those government programs and what did he say? I'm not against them. But maybe you should be against them because what we're finding out is that they are completely inefficient or they are slush funds or they are filled with fraud, or they are run in the most probably criminal ways possible. So there's still another intro to, we'll get there, no problem. But that getting to liberal masses, the reason I'm showing you that is that his audience is lefty, liberal, largely Democrat.

11:32And that notion may be finally breaking through to them. The very things that Thomas Sowell or libertarian economists were talking about 40 years ago is finally maybe breaking through to some level of the liberal elite. There is no number. Like think about all the billionaires that are moving to Florida right now out of New York. It's not because they're hardcore Florida man conservatives. It's because they understand basic economics. Most of them don't care about social issues. Like kind of is what it is. Most of them are probably not even that particularly political other than they like business.

12:06But at some point when you suck and suck and suck, there's nothing left. but they keep wanting to suck. And there goes our monetization for today's episode. I wish I understood a little bit more about economics. I thought this was interesting from Polymarket. Will Mamdami pass the 2 % millionaire tax before 2027? Only 14 % say yes. I don't know if he's going to pass it. My guess is yes, they will keep. Again, there is no reason to think that the Democrats will turn back on any of their bad policies. They will see all the billionaires flee. They'll look down about a thousand miles south, see Florida, see the flourishing, see that the new Wall Street and the new tech center is being built here.

12:54And they're gonna blame us for it rather than go, boy, are we the baddies? Did we have something to do with this? Maybe I shouldn't have stood outside that guy's building and told people where he lives so that they could come get him during the revolution. But it's not just that with Mamdami. Another thing, this one is just crazy. If you wanna see why I truly believe He is intentionally imploding the city. If you, maybe you could make some argument that he just doesn't get it with taxes. He's just a communist Marxist and he just honestly believes he could tax his way out of everything. Maybe you can make that argument.

13:25I don't think so at this point because it's so time-testedly wrong, but maybe you could, right? If you wanna see that now I genuinely think, and I think this is like almost as cold hard evidence as you get that he is trying to destroy every norm in the city. he just vetoed Bill 175B, which would have made it illegal for buffer zones around school and religious institutions. So to the backdrop of COVID and Hamas rallies and BLM and all the crazy stuff, they were gonna have some buffer zones so you couldn't just harass somebody as they were walking into synagogue or walking into church or you wouldn't be able to threaten kids or whatever it might be at schools.

14:06He's against that. Our city's history is written by those who refuse to stay silent. As mayor, I stand firmly on the side of New Yorkers' right to challenge power. Intro 175 , which applies to educational institutions, is meaningfully different. The problem is how widely this bill defines an educational institution and the constitutional concerns it raises regarding New Yorkers' fundamental right to protest. As the bill is written, everywhere from universities to museums to teaching hospitals could face restrictions. say you're a worker protesting ICE, or a college student demanding your school divest from fossil fuels, or demonstrating in support of Palestinian rights.

14:44Intro 175 is not a narrow public safety measure. It is a piece of legislation that has alarmed much of the labor movement, reproductive rights groups, and immigration advocates, amongst others across the city. Nearly a dozen unions have raised the alarm about its impact on their ability to organize. That is why I am vetoing this legislation. man this guy this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing and if you don't see it he don't know what to do with you of course what this really is about he said it there the palestinian rights groups he wants these hamas people to be out so he wants to make life as unlivable for jews in that city that's number one for this guy more than anything else you should be allowed to walk into a place of worship whatever the religion might be and by the way if it was a mosque and there were white supremacists standing outside all day long threatening people which is exactly what's happening at synagogues in New York City, I would be completely against it.

15:36And he would be against it too. The idea that he's defending the constitution is completely absurd. This guy would crap on the constitution if he could. I mean, in some sense you could argue he is. But the big three, it's immigration, Palestine, and reproductive rights. Because there's nothing Democrats love more than flooding your country with illegals, then creating sanctuary states, then making sure they're terrorist supporters, which is what all these Hamas people are, and aborting young children. They love killing children too. It's a perfect mix and that's who he's for. So what? So what?

16:11You're against ICE. You love Hamas. You're really into eight-month abortion. Do it at a public park then. Don't do it outside of a teaching hospital or an elementary school or a synagogue. But I'm telling you guys, it's intentional implosion of the system. You know, I'm always looking for the sane Democrat, and it's hard to find. It's sort of like the Yeti or the Unicorn or the Loch Ness Monster. Sightings are reported, but no one ever knows where they really are. Maryland Governor Westmore, meh, he's okay. At any moment, I'm sure he'll do horrible things, but he did have a nice moment on Real time.

16:54Same episode as Bill finally realizing that you can't tax your way out of the problem, which was nice to hear. Here we have a Democrat, actually Democrat governor, as a matter of fact, actually saying that applying the law often gets criminals to do less criminal things. When I first became the governor, we had an absolute violence crisis within our state. I mean, Baltimore City was averaging almost a homicide a day when I first became the governor. And I said, I was very clear, that we were going to have a different type of approach. If you look at the results, we've now seen how the violent crime rate in Maryland is down nearly 50%.

17:31It's the fastest drop in the entire country. The last time the homicide rate was this low in Baltimore City, I wasn't born yet. The reason I bring that up is this. We did not increase the severity of the punishment. We increased the probability. We made sure that you knew. You wanted to get there and be violent in our communities. You want to make communities and families like mine less safe? Well, we're going to get you, and you're not going to get out. We did not have to increase and say, like, we're adding a death penalty to it, but we said you will be held to account, and it has worked better and faster than anywhere else in the entire country.

18:06I like how Chris Cuomo, when a black guy is saying something sensible, Chris... Maybe you could put Chris Cuomo right here, and he could nod along. What Wes Moore just laid out there is what basically is happening in every Republican city and was the norm in this country until about 10 years ago, that if you commit a crime, you are going to be punished for it. We're not going to let you do petty theft. We're not going to let you rape grandma or sell fentanyl or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's how things are. So what he's saying is we didn't have to increase the threat level. It's not like they were like, we're going to death penalty you if you do a bad thing.

18:43We're just gonna make sure you know you're in trouble if you commit a crime. And everyone's nodding like, oh my, everyone in the audience, my God, is this guy a wizard? Where did he learn this? This is just incredible. It's what sane people have been doing forever. However, I like to give credit where credit is due. And Wes Moore, congratulations. Maybe, Connor, can you put a little, like a little cup, some sort of award cup that we could ding with a ding sound. Wes Moore, you're our Democrat of the day. Congratulations. You get a digital ding cup. Let's put that in EFT form, sell it for seven cents.

19:15So okay, you get it. The narrative is the issue here, guys. There are bad people on every which side of every which issue and people say mean things and we will always wanna be on the side of free speech and all of that. But the fact that for the third time now, Donald, there has been an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And as Donald Trump pointed out in that interview with Norah O'Donnell, he is someone who is consequential and people like taking out consequential people. If he was just doing nothing, nobody would care. But so much of it, and we now know this from the manifesto, so much of it comes from people, regular citizens being fed lies, not only by online influencers, but mainstream media and the Democrat establishment themselves, videotape.

20:00I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be. People need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator. You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives. Enemies of the state. Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless. When they go low, we kill them. How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck? The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized up to the right.

20:35I'd like to punch him in the face. I thought he should have punched him in the face. I said, even if you lost, he insulted your wife. He came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murders. He said, well, what do you think I should have done? I said, I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race. He would have been a hero. It's so interesting. Even just that last portion right there, Donald Trump did not call Mexicans rapists and violent. He was talking about the ones that are rapists and violent, the drug gang guys, every single thing they do. Now, I know we've shown you that before, but the reason I wanted to show you that is to highlight this poll from YouGov.

21:04Listen to this and then wonder why we are in this situation that we're in. This is most Americans across the political spectrum say political violence is never justified. But watch this, younger and more liberal voters, liberal Americans, sorry, are more likely to disagree. So very liberal. So this is the progressive woke end of things. 25 % say that violence can be justified. This is very much what we've been talking about the last couple of days about this Hassan Piker guy. Like I don't really like what you did so I can understand why someone would murder you. So very liberal, woke, progressive, lefty, 25%.

21:39Liberal, it's hard to know what they say, what they think the word liberal means, but 17%. I mean, that's certainly not within the classically liberal milieu, but okay. So that's, if you add those two, right? You're into the 40s now, you're in the 42%. Conservatives, only 6 % of conservatives say political violence could be justified and very conservative, which it's a none, zero, 0 % say. That is massively different. So far left to sort of mainstream left, we're looking at about 42 % of young people and right to a little further right, let's say conservative to very conservative, it's 6%. That is a freaking massive gap right there.

22:22And you might go, well, how did that happen? How did that happen? I would say it's largely because of the ecosystem that these people get their information from. We showed you yesterday, A couple videos from right before the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Jimmy Kimmel talking about Melania Trump being a widow, making terrible jokes about Stephen Miller, a Jew being a Nazi, all of these things. This is also two days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner. This is Joy Behar over on The View from the Insane Asylum, suggesting that Trump is trying to kill us. I'm really mad at you, too.

22:56I'm really mad at you. Sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us. You think? Yeah. I mean, you've got, you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the earth is in a lot of trouble. But here you've got a guy who's in charge of our health, who was a former heroin addict. He swam in sewage. Who does that? Who does that? And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health America. Yeah, well and also do not put up with this We're in a lot of trouble. Don't we just don't people have you guys never swam in sewage?

23:39I used to do that six-mile race for the cure or something and I swam in sewage every year I swam in sewage. It was a pleasure. I loved it. They're trying to kill us That's what she's saying Donald Trump because she doesn't like Donald Trump Donald Trump's policies as it relates to climate change, which is a completely made up fictitious thing, she thinks they're trying to kill us. And I don't even know that she even believes that as much as she just says it for her dingbat audience. And then Whoopi goes, you think? You think? So the implication is, of course, they're trying to kill us. Well, if you thought that the president and his cadre of masters of the universe, like evil people.

24:15You got Merman and you got Triclops and I'm going too early for you guys, right? You got nothing. Beastman and what? Well, He-Man, yes, but He-Man was a good guy. Cringer was also a good guy. Who worked with Skeletor? Who else worked with Skeletor? No, She-Ra is also a good guy. I'm talking Beastman, yes, Merman, Triclops. Give me one that I didn't say. Trapjaw was great. Wait, his arm came off, you could have a laser or a claw. Oh man, gonna get you one of those. Anyway, what the hell was I talking about? The point of all of that is that He-Man is not applicable here and at the end of the day, don't watch the view, I think is what I'm trying to tell you.

24:59These people are trying to scare the hell out of you and don't worry about climate change, everything's gonna be fine, but you get the point. That if you make everything about fear, than somebody who you've affected deeply because there aren't enough good institutions left to inoculate people from these bad ideas. They're going to do the worst thing. And we know that, right? Whether it is now the actual assassination of Charlie Kirk or whether it is the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump and everything else. And the irony of all of this, and I'll try to get one more He-Man reference in here before the show is done.